DEMOCRAT CANDIDATES GO MISSING & Refuse To Debate Weeks Ahead Of The Election. It's Called The Biden Strategy For A Reason!

we're on the bus. We're headed down the freeway. We're going from Missouri up to the state of Iowa. After Iowa, we're head to do Ohio and then Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, backup to Michigan, then to Wisconsin, and we're ending in the great state of Texas. You've been out there and you've obviously seen the crowds, and if you haven't been following the Senator on social media, you should look at

the pictures. I think the crowds that you've been seeing are very indicative of what voter turnout could look like in just a few weeks on the Republican side of things. And while that's happening center, we're also noticing a very interesting new trend, and it's one I think is concerning for all Americans. That is, major Democrats are refusing to debate conservative candidates. You and I were talking about this before the show. Your concern the Democrats may stop debating

Republicans if this continues to be an effective strategy for them. Yeah, that's right. It's a really disturbing development. I've been with two of the Republicans who are facing it in the last few days. I was in Arizona with Kerry Lake, who's running for governor. I think she's going to be elected the Republican governor there, and her Democrat opponent, Katie Hobbs, refuses to debate. She said that there will be no gubernatorial debate in the state of Arizona. She won't do

it up in Pennsylvania. Josh Shapiro, the Democrat nominee for governor, refuses to debate Mastriano. Again, no debate for you, He's not going to do it. And I just left Missouri last night, did a big rally with Eric Schmidt, who is the Republican nominee for Senate in Missouri. His Democrat opponent, Trudy Valentine, a gazillionaire an heiress of the Bush Beer fortune, refuses to debate as well. And then what I think it is is they are following the Joe Biden basement strategy.

They saw that he basically hidden his basement for two years and the media got him elected president. And they're saying, wait a second, this is a great approach because every day of the week, the media carries our water, they repeat our attack lines, and they protect our candidates. The only time a candidate has never held to account is in a debate. So if we refuse to debate, will never be held to account. And I got to say,

this is a really dangerous development. I think in two years or four years, you could see dozens or more major Democrat candidates saying we will not debate. And I got to admit I find it personally offensive. I think it contempt for the voters. I think it shows contempt for the democratic process. Listen, I've had debates against opponents who were not serious or strong or credible opponents. But I think you owe the voters the chance to see

the candidate to make a decision. But this is yet another step in the Democrats and the corporate media getting in bed together and being corrupted. To be clear, it worn't for you know, the current president, Joe Biden, and it's something that I'm sure woke up a lot of Democratics try to saying, look, if we've got a candidate that's not good on stage, we've got a candidate can't defend the issues. And look at the issues now, they're a mile long for many of these campaigns, border security,

the economy, inflation, interest rates. The list, unfortunately literally goes on and on. They just say, all right, we'll buy the election by buying ads and we just won't debate, and hopefully people will just believe us in the media will give us cover because the media center would have never allowed this to happen ten, fifteen, twenty years ago. Well,

and it's even more than that. It's not just buying ads, it's it's they know that the media's news coverage twenty four hours a day will be an ad I mean, I mean, I mean everything they cover will be trying to advance the Democrat message, trying to elect the Democrats and right now, the corporate media is the biggest superpack in America. For the Democrats, on the other hand, and it's not even if your candidate is not that good

at debates, even if they are. Look Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania, one of the reasons he won't debate is the polls have him leading by a comfortable margin. And so I'm sure their attitude is, hey, we're gonna win if we don't do anything, so why screw it up. It's an arrogance. It's I'm entitled to be elected, and the voters are too stupid. They don't even deserve to see a hard question get asked of me, you know, the flip side.

And part of the reason Democrats do this. So the Atlanta Journal Constitution, we just had a debate between herschel Walker and Raphael Wardock. The front page of the Atlanta Journal Constitution says, quote herschel Walker's debate performance scores points for his campaign. Well, Raphael Warnock is probably wondering why did I get herschel Walker a platform when every other day the corporate media hacks just attack herschel Walker all

day long. And suddenly Warnock had to answer difficult questions which he hasn't had to answer any day of the year when the press refuses to do the job of a journalist, refuses to ask Democrats difficult questions or really any questions, that it's only during a debate that a Democrat is forced to defend his or her record or answer a hard question. And you mentioned previously that the media would have lost their minds because, look, the journalists

make a lot of money. Media companies make a lot of money on these political debates. They are so complicit that they're willing to give up millions of dollars to make sure Democrats win. Because the media in Arizona and Missouri and Pennsylvania ought to be going nuts every single day pounding these candidates. Look, it's so bad that there was a reporter from Project Veritas who was trying to

get Katie Hobbs to answer a question. She literally ran away and hid in the bathroom rather than answer a reporter's question. Because Democrats believe that they're entitled never to have to answer a hard questions. It's really interesting, Senator, where we are as a country. And I'm talking about on transparency, and I'll move from democrats refusing to debate to the other side of the coin, which is Republicans

are willing to have a grand debate. You do college campuses, you do a lot of public speaking events, and now what we see is the left is trying to cancel us. A perfect example of this is is doctor Phil had an interesting conversation with Tomy Lauren who is over at Fox News, about cancel culture and where Republicans show up, they don't want to allow you to speak, but when Republicans demand Democrats speak, they don't want to do it. And I want you to hear part of this that

was put out about her being canceled. Take a listen. I came here to speak in Albuquerque, University of New Mexico. I know that there was a protest planned. You know, usually when I speak, there's protest planned, and usually it's small, it's manageable, just some rowdy people, disgruntled liberals, you know the standard. That's not what happens in night. It turned violent. They started pushing the officers that were guarding the door, trying to bust in the door. I was escorted away

for my safety by officers. The emergency unit had to be called in because that's how bad it got. We were barricaded in the kitchen, or probably about a half an hour to forty five minutes. I mean, you hear that, and you hear Tony describe this. And the scary thing is, now this is normal. You talk to many college campus speakers, you do this. The security apparatus has changed for all

conservatives that go on campuses. And so while we're saying let's have a grand debate, they're saying, not only do we not want to debate you, we don't even want to allow you to speak. Yeah. So when when Democrat candidates are skipping debates and refusing to debate, they're trying to silence any public discourse, They're trying to silence their

ideas being questioned. When you just played there what happened to Tommy Lauren on the University to Mexico is a step even further, which is many on the left or willing to use violence to stop an opposing view. They're willing to threaten violence, they're willing to harass, they're willing to intimidate the fact that that a young woman had to hide and it was law enforcement that told her to hide that fur her safety for forty five minutes

because violent leftists were threatening to physically injure her. That I mean, that is, it's completely wrong. It happens on college campuses far too often. Happened, by the way, a number of months ago at Yale Law School where a lawyer for the Alliance Defending Freedom who had won a major Supreme Court case on religious liberty in front of

the US Supreme Court. She was there speaking and hundreds of angry leftists at Yale began screaming and shut the event down, And of course the Yale Law School campus

did nothing to punish to reprimand those students. I will say, by the way, as an aside, a very interesting development for that A good friend of mine is a federal judge in the Fifth Circuit, Judge Jim Hoe, and he gave a long speech in which he said, given Yale Law schools willingness to tolerate, cancel culture and to tolerate violence, shutting down free speech from this point forward, he is not going to hire law clerks who go to Yale

Law School. And his announcements caused a lot of the blue check mark lefties to lose their mind and get very very upset. Joe was a very prestigious judge. He's a phenomenal judge, and not being able to clerk for him is a big deal for young aspiring lawyers. Since then, more than a dozen other federal judges that followed suit and said we're not going to hire clerks from Yale also, And so I'm glad to see people are pushing back against this use of violence to censor and silence views

the left doesn't like. It's getting dangerous, and you look at even parents. Now we've started to see a very clear trend. It's now normal for the FBI and the DOJ to be weaponized to attack people that they don't agree with, aka conservatives. We saw this start. You and I had this discussion the other day about under the Obama administration. But now it's gone to the point of just total rogue nation. I would describe it where anything you don't like, or anybody you don't like, you call

them a domestic terrorist. And it's not just people saying it, it's the actual government saying it. Parents showed up to talk about their kids what they're being taught in schools, they were labeled domestic tears, the same as al Qaeda or ISIS, and you just came out and this is a new group of people they're treating like their terrorists. The AMA. You slammed the AMA's call to prosecute people exposing radical transgender surgery providers and demands to know and

thank you for doing this. If the DOJ actually prompted this letter, break down this story of how now they're saying we'll just take kids away from parents. Well, it's yet another escalation of violence. So a second ago we were talking about the use of violence from just individual actors and institutions turning a blind eye and allowing threats

of violence to be carried out. There's a further escalation of violence, which is the use of state violence, the use of state power to threaten, to criminally prosecute it and incarceerate people on the under basic principles of our constitution, the state that the government has a monopoly on violence. It should be used only in rare circumstances, in other words, to physically prevent someone from committing a crime or to

punish them from committing a crime. Well, what has happened under Barack Obama and what has metastasized even worse under Joe Biden is the law enforcement agencies, DOJ, FBI, the intelligence agency. He's had a m weaponized. It is now a tool that they used to go after their enemies

and to threaten criminal consequences. And so, as you noted, we had a number of months ago, the National Association of school Boards wrote a letter to President Biden saying, will you please target moms and dads who are going to school boards and speaking out because they're unhappy about

critical race theory, They're unhappy about radical transgender ideology. They're unhappy about as was the case in Latin County a little girl, a fourteen year old girl who was sexually assaulted in the bathroom by a boy wearing a skirt, and the school board then covered it up, insisted it happened, and actually had the father of the little girl arrested when he went to the school board meeting expressing his

understandable deep displeasure. Well Merrick Garland, the Attorney General, five days later, immediately wrote a memo to the FBI directing them target parents, the NASH Association, the school board and aspect that they be targeted under the Patriot Act as domestic terrorists and the Biden DJ saluted and said, sir, yes, sir, and they are doing it right now. Their parents across the country that the FBI is interviewing is going after

because they've exercised their First Amendment rights. Well, what's happened next?

The American Medical Association decided to get in on the game, and the leftists who control the AMA are unhappy that a handful of intrepid reporters had begun reporting on these hospitals that are making big business millions and up to billions of dollars performing genital mutilations, performing surgeries where they sterilize children, little girls, little boys, They cut off their genitals, they remove their uterus, they make it so they cannot

have children, and it is a money making endeavor. And the corporate institution of medicine is embarrassed and mad that anyone caught them at it. And so the AMA asked, DOJ what did they did? They ask them, Hey, go after people that are for someone that that are sterilizing children who don't have the ability to consent and are not mature enough to make those kind of life decisions. No, they're asking, DOJ prosecute the journalists prosecute people who are

exposing the truth. And so I joined. A week ago, I brought together five senators and writing a letter to DOJ telling Merrick Garland do not do this, this would be an abusive power and asking DOJ to give us

every communication they've had with the AMA. And it's sheet another example of using government power to silence those who disagree with And in this instance, it's even worse because the corporate media won't do its job, but Left is trying to literally put in jail anyone who will do the job of journalism and report on the horrific activities that are being carried out on children and and and they're barbaric, and the media supports it all. And I

suspect the White House and DAJA does as well. Yeah, it brings me to another part of this story. A Virginia Democrat Center has decided to introduce legislation they would allow a parents who don't affirm their child generalinity to actually be criminally prosecuted. The local news media put out this story. I'm going to play it for everybody, and then I want to get your reaction. Yeah, delegate is introducing a new bill centered around parents and how they

handle their child sexual orientation and gender identity. Seven News reporter Nick Manak explains why this is controversial right now, Parents writes in LGBTQ protections are a big focus in Virginia. Thousands of students in Virginia have walked out of class protesting Governor Glen Yungkan's newly proposed model policies on the treatment of transgender students at school, and Governor Young can argue schools shouldn't keep parents in the dark about their

child's sexual orientation and gender identity. These same progressives in Fairfax County I actually believe that they should lock parents out of their children's lives. They think that parents have no right to know what your child is discussing with

their teacher or their counselor. Democratic Virginia Delegate Elizabeth Guzman is a social worker, and she's planning on reintroducing the bill in Richmond that she says would help protect LGBTQ children from their parents and guardians who may not be affirming of their child's sexual orientation and gender identity. This is how we're going to push back her bill, what expand the state's definition of child abuse and neglect to include parents who do not affirm their child's gender identity

or sexual orientation. I mean, I'm just going to stop at their senator. You hear this, delegate say this. If you don't agree with what your child tells you at the age of two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, anywhere in there about their sexual orientation or gender identity, then you could be charged criminally with child abuse. It is one of the most terrifying news stories I have ever read. And this is where the modern left is.

So what they are saying, So let me stop and say that the words gender affirming really deserve to be in the Hall of Fame for absurd euphemisms. And by the way, gender affirming. Every corporate media hack uses gender affirming gender affirming. Let's be clear. What they mean is not saying to your kid, oh, you're so awesome, I love you, kiddo. No. No. What they mean by gender affirming care is, look, Ben, you're you're the father of sons. If your son comes to you and says, Daddy, I

feel like a girl. What they mean by gender affirming care is to take it to some hospital that will cut his penis off and make it so you can never have grandkids from him because they will sterilize him. And you know what, your child and no child has the maturity to make a decision like that when they are a minor, a decision that is life altering. Once you cut it off, you don't get it back. It is permanent, it is gone. And if adult wants to do that, adults can make decisions that affect the rest

of their life. And that's part of the consequence of adulthood. But kids, kids don't have that writer ability. And what that I'm sorry I have to use the word lunatic death. Democrat has proposed in Virginia is that if your son says that to you, Ben, and you have the misfortune of living in Virginia, that they will come and arrest you, Ben and charge you with a felony. She said a little bit later in that interview, it would be a felony and lock you up in jail because you refused

to remove your child's genitals. That is well you and I have used the phrase cultural Marxism, and I recognize to some people that that might seem harsh, that might seem extreme. But when you have democrats literally proposing we're going to lock moms and dads in jail unless they are willing to permanently sterilize and mutilate their children. We have really gone over the edge. And that Democrat, I'll tell you, I've watched the video of that TV news interview.

She's quite proud of herself saying this. She believes it is a wonderful thing that that that that if you won't do it, you should be charged with child abuse, prosecuted with a felity, and serve a long prison sentence. Well, and let's go down that road. What this also is about, Senator, is about then taking your children away from you, putting

them in foster care. That is obviously going to have to be by their definition of what breaking the law is would have to be someone that is in favor of gender affirming surgeries, right of changing someone's gender, because if you're a traditional family at that point, as a foster family, I guess technically you could be charged with the crime if you didn't go down that road with the kid as well. So it's not just about putting

the parent in jail. It's about the ultimate victory for them of if you're in jail and we've charged you with child abuse, then by default, child Protective Services would come in and take your child away from you and put them with a family that will be advocating for this lifestyle change. Yeah, you're exactly right. Now. Let me be clear, this bill has not passed in Virginia yet,

but it was proposed by an elected Democrat representative. She introduced the bill, and Virginia has been ground zero for a lot of these battles because if you remember back the gubernatorial race when Glen Yonkan was running, I endorsed Glenn early on. He's been a friend of mine a long time. He and I barnstormed the state of Virginia for two entire days right before election day. And a big part of why he won is that parents got

fed up in that election. Terry mcculliffs the Democrat in the debate and by the way, no, he had a debate, Terry mcculliff, and hindsight probably wishes he didn't have a debate and followed the Joe Biden hide the basiness strategy because in the debate, Terry mcculloffs said parents have no business telling schools what their children are being taught, and a whole bunch of Mama bears, a whole bunch of

Virginia moms got pissed off. And they were moms who had voted for Joe Biden, who turned around and voted for a Republican Glen Youngcan and flipped the state. This is the next step of where the radicals want to go.

They believe what Terry mcculluff said, which is, your children are not yours, they're theirs, as they have the power to control what has taught to your children and now even what permanent life altering medical treatments and mutilations are done to your children, even against your wishes as a mom or death. Let's look at another crazy story that

has come out. There are two former leaders in the mainstream media senator of x C and N chief boss Jeff Zucker and the ax MSNBC chief Phil Griffin, who have both come out over the weekend defended ignoring the Hunter Biden's story, not reporting on both their networks, refused to touch it, refused to report on it when it broke, even when they had people to them telling them it was it was a legitimate news story. They said during

this the quote unconvention it's a media convention thing. That and while they were speaking on a panel together, they both said, look, CNN, Zucker said claim they researched in the story of Hunter Biden's laptop, but at the network quote did not spend enough time vetting the authenticity of the story. Then CNN finally admitted Center five hundred and thirty two days later that the Hunter Biden's Laptop from Hell was authentic after the initial story broke a couple

of days before that. They also said it was They did call it over and over again Russian disinformation and made up. They said that for the entire time they refused to admit it was a real story. But now when they were asked about it, they both said, you got to understand something. We did the right thing here. We did the right thing because quote Hunter Biden was

never arrested. So that is their new standard of I guess, covering corruption in the media until some are in politics, until someone is arrested, Until someone is arrested for a crime, we don't cover the story. Did they do that with anybody around Donald Trump? By the way, I'm pretty sure that's not their standard. Well, Ben lying, liars, lie and with the corrupt corporate media. That's what they do. Look when they say that, they know it's b Yes, they

know they're lying when they say that. Obviously, that's not their standard, that they will only cover evidence of corruption when someone's arrested. Donald Trump. Last I checked, Donald Trump had not been arrested, And I think they've covered every minute of every hour of every day for the last seven years, every allegation directed at Donald Trump. By the way, you know that they're right now doing the same thing

to herschel Walker. Last I checked, herschel Walker wasn't arrested, but there have been all sorts of of personal and nasty allegations against herschel Walker, which they've breathlessly covered. You know, they cover every attack directed at me, They covered breathlessly, every attack directed at any other Republican they covered breathlessly. By the way, they ignore attacks on Democrats across the board. So the herschel Walker personal attacks are nasty. I wish

politics didn't get into intra family disputes. But at the same time, Raphael Warnock has some nasty intra family disputes that are pretty ugly that I don't think we should get into either. But the media play the very selective game where they're willing to drag all of one side's dirty laundry in public, but not the other side. When they sent that at this convention, that well, the reason

we didn't cover it as he wasn't arrested. Every molecule in their body knew they were lying, and they didn't care because they were in a room full of other liars, and it was simply a pretense to cover up their real reason, which is we wanted Joe Biden to win. We wanted Donald Trump to lose, and we were willing to lie in order to make that happen. It was I mean the quote and I still laugh at it.

Quote he was never arrested, The Justice Department was looking into it, never reported it until until he is the son of a candidate. I don't think it's a main story quote until that happens. The head of MSNBC said, defending themselves on stage, say mean, well, you guys need to calm down. We did our job. We were brilliant journalists in this matter. We just waited five hundred something

days until until we admitted the laptop was real. But before that, and I'm like, well, then you just contradicted your own standard. Because if your own standard is Senator that we don't report the story until someone's arrested. Hunter Biden has still not been arrested, So then why did you report on it after five hundred days? You contradicted your own journalistic standard. Well, and the important thing to understand,

they're not journalists anymore. They're not pretending to be journalist anymore. They are partisans. They're not just Democrats. They're the left wing of the Democrat Party. You know, what it reminds me of is what we talked about in our last podcast, which is Joe Biden asking Saudi Arabia, hey, will you delay the output cut in oil for a month just to lay it into laster election. In other words, Joe Biden,

I'm not interested in fighting for the American people. Biden's not going to fight for lower jasoline prices for families that can't afford to provide for their kids. He wants thirty days. Let me get past the election. Just get me past the election. Do me a political solid here. That's what CNN and MSNBC we're doing. They looked at this story and said, oh, this is bad for our guy. We've got an election coming up. If we report on this, people won't like it, and they might not vote for

our guide. If they don't vote for our guy, the guy we don't like might win. So you know what, Unlike Saudi Arabia who said we're not going to be the political henchman for Joe Biden, thank you for the invitation CNN, MSNBC happily said, of course, or the political henchman for Joe Biden. That is our job. They do not behave any differently. Here's a question to ask yourself.

Would MSNBC behave any differently if the Biden for President campaign literally signed their paychecks and if every word they say on TV every day is identical to what they would say if their paycheck every two weeks came from Biden for President. That tells you they're not journalists. They're political hacks. And sadly that's the that's the reality of it. You even tweeted about this. It was an interesting point.

There are people that are now demanding that a reporter that talked about how in the conversation she was having with a politician didn't believe that he was co hearrent in this conversation, and now she's been reprimanded and people are demand that she be fired. So even when the media does do their job, their own industry and their own network seems to turn on them like automatically because they didn't tote the line of propaganda. It really is stunning.

They had this young NBC reporter who interviewed John Fetterman and listen. Fetterman apparently is so mentally diminished that he required closed captioning, so not only would he hear the questions, but he had to read them to understand what the questions were. And this young reporter said afterwards said, wow, he really is mentally diminished. I mean it was I was trying to talk to him and he couldn't. He

didn't understand what I was saying and what was going on. Now, in any ordinary world, that would be called news, and for a young reporter, that's a big breaking story. She ought to be commended for actually reporting on news. But several things happened. Number One, f RAN's wife has publicly

called that this reporter be fired. Why go back to the question I said before, how would things be different if all of the corporate media's paycheck came from in this case, instead of the Biden for President's campaign, the John Federman for Senate campaign. Well, if this reporter had done this and she worked for the John Federman for

Senate campaign, they would have fired her. So in some ways, I don't fault Missus Federman for saying one of our employees said something that was harmful to our candidate, fired them. And it is interesting the mandarins of the corrupt corporate media all jumped on board attacking this poor young reporter absurdly enough. The View, you know, the show, The View you had Whoopee and Sonny going on and on about how terrible it was that this reporter actually reported on

what she saw and how offensive it was. And I will say, Ben, I bring up that example with kind of a in HCA A week for today from today, we're gonna break some big news. Everybody, get your DVRs ready, because you're about to break some news. One week from today, I'm gonna be on the View, and I'm gonna be sitting there, uh with with those wonderfully fair and impartial arbitrares of journalism, having a conversation about my new book,

Justice Corrupted, which comes out next week and I am confident. Uh, we're gonna see some fireworks a week from today on the View. I'm looking forward to it. But but I will also welcome advice from from Verdict listeners uh as as as to what I should say and how I should handle it when they they descend upon me. Uh with with with with knives drawn? Yeah, send your send

your questions. You can do it on social media. You can write us a five star review and and and put your thoughts on the on the View and what the senders should say. Wherever you're listening to this podcast, make sure obviously you share this podcast on social media. And lastly, center, you're on the bus tour right now. As we mentioned, you're going to be heading to a few more states. The bus tours online at tc bustour dot com. What's the next week look like for you

on the on the tour? The next week is just straight on the road. We're heading right now to Iowa Falls doing a rally this evening for Ashley Henson, who is a first term member of Congress in a tight re election battle. I think she's gonna win, but I want to make sure she wins. Well. I was a big rally there. Then we're headed over to Ohio next doing a big rally with JD Vance, which should be great. I think Jad's gonna win that Senate seat in Ohio.

And from there we continue on to Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin, Texas. As Ben said, you can go to tcbustour dot com. You can find out the dates of the stops and and and come see us, Come get free tickets because it's every rally we've done has been packed and the energy is awesome. I think we're doing rallies with a total of thirty seven candidates all across the country, and we're about half way through. It's been really strong so far.

It's really fun to see out there on the road and doing this for so many other Conservatives because you know, you've got to have a team when you get back to Washington, even though it's not an election year for you, you're out there getting the work done for so many others, and we all appreciate that. We'll see all of our listeners back here in just a couple of days. As we have expanded to three days a week. Make sure

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